Elvet, Gilesgate & Shincliffe · County Durham · England
Updated September 2026
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At this postcode
| Address | Date | Price |
|---|---|---|
| 5, North View, Durham, DH1 2LE | 24 July 2023 | £180,000 |
| 5, North View, Durham, DH1 2LE | 2 July 2021 | £130,000 |
| 3, North View, Durham, DH1 2LE | 22 May 2015 | £128,000 |
Within 3.1 miles of this postcode
St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate
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Laurel Avenue Community Primary School
Community school
St Hild's College Church of England Primary School, Durham
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Within 1 mile of this postcode
Census 2021
6 female, 5 male
1,234 residents
1,099 residents
1,851 residents
2,006 residents
2,077 residents
This postcode contained 0.1% of the sector's usual residents on Census Day. The age profile describes the wider DH1 2 sector, not people in this individual postcode.
Census Day: 21 March 2021. Sources: ONS/Nomis P001-P004 and ONS CT21_0228. Age table version 2024-04-08.
Ofcom's predicted availability across all residential and commercial premises in this postcode in January 2026.
Source: Ofcom Connected Nations Spring 2026, version 2026-01-v2. Contains Ofcom data licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
NHS ODS
5
within 5 km
26 GILESGATE, DURHAM, DH1 1QW
ODS code A83011
1.1 km
BROOMSIDE LANE, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2QW
ODS code A83014
1.6 km
THE LINKS, BELMONT, DURHAM, DH1 2UW
ODS code A83055
1.7 km
NEWTON DRIVE, DURHAM, DH1 5BH
ODS code A83036
3.0 km
THE SURGERY, WOODLAND VIEW, WEST RAINTON, HOUGHTON LE SPRING, DH4 6RQ
ODS code A83024
4.6 km
Source acquired on 2026-09-03. Contains information from NHS England, licenced under the current version of the Open Government Licence.
Sunderland Road Musgrave Gardens
BCT · Gilesgate Moor
Edward Street
BCT · Gilesgate Moor
Sherburn Road
BCT · Durham
Moorlands
BCT · Sherburn Road
Moorlands
BCT · Sherburn Road
English Indices of Deprivation 2025 for County Durham 029C, the published LSOA linked to this postcode. Decile 1 contains the most deprived 10% of English LSOAs and decile 10 the least deprived 10%.
Overall IMD decile
4 of 10
Overall England rank
12,496 of 33,755
These are relative area statistics, not measures of an individual household, affluence or absolute change. They cannot be compared with indices for other UK nations. Source: English Indices of Deprivation 2025, version 2025-v2.
Environment Agency long-term indicators for the area around addresses in this postcode. They are not an assessment of any individual property and do not show current or forecast flooding.
Source: Environment Agency flood-risk postcode search tool data, version 2026-06-18. Check the long-term risk for an individual area. © Environment Agency copyright and/or database right 2025. All rights reserved.
A factual reading of the data in this report's scope. It is not a location score or a recommendation.
Recorded sales
The five-year median is £180,000 from 1 recorded sale in DH1 2LE. This is a recorded-sale statistic, not a current valuation.
The latest UK House Price Index average for County Durham is £138,148 in June 2026, up 7.0% year on year.
Published establishments
31 open schools are in scope, including 21 primary and 4 secondary schools. St Joseph's Catholic Primary School, Gilesgate is the nearest published school at 288 m.
Counts describe active establishment records. They do not assess admissions, catchments or quality.
Published police records
2,525 published events cover 12 months, averaging 210.417 events per published month. The largest recorded category is Violence and sexual offences with 761 events.
The source publishes anonymised street-level events. These figures are not a measure of safety for an individual address.